Julie James is a doctoral candidate of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She is a current Samuel H. Kress Fellow with the Medici Archive Project in Florence. Her article, "Bedding Agostino Chigi: Sodoma's Marriage of Alexander and Roxanne at the Villa Farnesina," was published in 2021 with Sixteenth Century Journal. When she's not working on her academic research, you can find her at the nearest enoteca. Follow her on Instagram @adventuringartblog.
The first time I visited the Jewish ghetto in Siena was by accident. I’d just stumbled my way out of the Palazzo Pubblico — the civic seat of the Sien…